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Help with plan for losing weight?

Basically, I'm going on holiday abroad in three months and I want to look good for it. I'm fifteen now, about 5ft 3 inches and I'm not dramatically overweight, but I'm a lot larger than I'm really happy to be. So this is what I intend to do: Change my routine for starters. I've been really unhealthy up until now, and that's got to change. I've been oversleeping WAY too much recently- anything from twelve to fifteen hours sleep, like every day (yeah, day. I screwed up my sleeping pattern so I've been quite nocturnal :L). And I NEVER exercise. So my new routine would be as follows: -Wake 5:30-ish (I always feel great when I get up early, so...) -Some kind of exercise- probably sit-ups and then once or twice a week (it's £3.50 a time because I can't afford membership otherwise I'd go more often) go to the gym and do about an hour and a half's swimming, until eight (gym opens at 6:30). -Go to school, as normal. I used to go halves on a REALLY big portion of chips with my friend at lunch, but instead maybe walk the extra ten minutes to the supermarket (it wouldn't make me late, I always have tons of time and they don't let you back into school until the end of lunch break, on the dot :/) and get something like an apple and something else (I don't really know, any suggestions on that one?). And then the extra walking would be better for me as well :). -On my way home, I always have another snack, because I don't eat until like, seven or eight at night, so maybe just more fruit? Another alternative suggestion would be much appreciated, but I don't like nuts and most other healthy stuff if I'm honest :/. -I walk about twenty/twenty-five minutes of my journey home, and then I get the bus- if I walked the rest of the way I'd be doing about three-quarters of an hour walking home, and then that would be good exercise too. -Due to home life, my dad, certain circumstances etc, my range of dinner options are limited mostly to McDonalds and pizza, which I mostly decline unless I'm desperate for a hot dinner (I can't stand McDonalds- it makes me feel sick unless I'm REALLY hungry and pizza's alright, but if I eat it one week, I won't want it again for another three or four at least :L). The only working appliance we have in the kitchen is the microwave- nothing else, not even an oven, toaster, freezer or fridge. There is no other option open to me to get anything hot without it being junk food and money's so tight, so we can't do proper supermarket shops. So what on earth should I eat for dinner? Something I can buy from the mini-Tesco would be good :L. -At night, I'll do more sit-ups or similar exercises and then go to bed when I'm tired- eleven at the latest probably. What do you think? I know I missed off breakfast from there. I honestly cannot eat it. If I eat anything before about eleven, it just makes me feel nauseous for ages. I don't know why :/. I'm thinking to solve that, I'd just take a banana to school and eat it at morning break (about half eleven). And I know there isn't a whole lot of eating on that schedule, and that's simply because I don't eat that much. I don't know why, I guess I just have a small appetite. And I can go hours and hours without eating and I feel just fine. Also, I'd just keep healthy snacks in the cupboard in case I got peckish anyways (bound to happen at some point :L). So can people please suggest how I can improve this plan? And how effective do you think it will be? And another thing- I really want to be skinny. Not like, really badly skinny, but think... I dunno, just thin. But not chubby-thin if you get me? I want to get rid of my flab and be kind of flat-stomached, or at the very least, not jiggly. Ah, I know what I mean, I hope you do too! Anyways, my point is, I've always been naturally chubby- will that go away with this? I mean, I would really like not to have flabby arms and legs and stomach area. So what can I do to get rid of the flab? Can I get rid of it? And this isn't just so I can look good on my holiday- it's because I want to look and feel really good all the time :). And if I start doing this, will I feel amazing, like people say they do? Because I'm always really poor-tempered and I want that to stop, but I can't help it :S. Okay, thank you for your time :):).

Public Comments

1. Hi, I'm 15 too and 5"4. I weighted 125 and I'm down to about 115 now. What I did is limit myself to 1200 calories a day. It might seem like not that much or may seem unhealthy, but I talked to my doctor first and he said that would be fine. How I kept track of my calories was using my iPod-touch, or iPhone and downloaded "Myfittnesspal" on iTunes. It's free by the way. That has helped me out alot. If I can loose that much weight, I no you can. Good luck loosing weight. Hope I helped a little. Bye:)